A TEENAGER confessed because he couldn’t resist bragging about what he had done, a court heard.

Fairweather’s own confession ended the “period of terror” in Colchester but Mr Justice Spencer said this had nothing to do with guilt.

He said the killer “relished the power and control” the first murder gave him over the people of Colchester and after being arrested for possession of an offensive weapon, which attracted no separate penalty, “you were still relishing the fact you had been responsible for the two killings with all the police and media attention they had attracted.”

However ultimately it was this attention which led Michelle Sadler to call police and Fairweather’s capture.

Throughout the trial the 17-year-old showed little emotion.

During sentencing his disdain for the proceedings became obvious.

Fairweather joked and waved to his family wiggling his glasses at the Old Bailey on Friday.

Giving thumbs up and miming keeping his chin up Fairweather showed no appreciation for the sentence which was coming and when it did it appeared a tear would follow.

But instead he put his hands in his pockets, blew his family a kiss and said “I don’t care, I don’t give a ****.”

The behaviour was typical of his attitude to violence.

He beat up a boy to cause him “agony and pain”.

He wanted to rape girls at his school, kill the bullies and throw acid in the face of his headteacher.

During the trial the court also heard about his violent rape fantasies, his desire to kill 15 people and the fact he only stopped himself strangling a girl to death at the hospital because it may harm his trial.